It’s at least the fourth proposal for 126 Langdon St. since 2008. The most recent attempt to redevelop the site, Core Spaces’ seven-story Hub II, failed to secure city approval in 2020 and again in 2021 after residents objected to the building’s height and its luxury amenities, which included a rooftop swimming pool and hot tub.
One university has completely depleted its unrestricted reserves — a first in UW System history — that will require the UW System to step in and loan some of its own reserves. And some of the universities projecting to close their deficits in the coming year still need to make “substantial” cuts to achieve that goal, UW officials told the UW Board of Regents at a Thursday meeting on the UW-Milwaukee campus.
The University of Wisconsin System’s chief diversity officer has resigned after a year on the job and amid Republicans’ targeting of campus diversity efforts.
Officers arrested and cited seven people with disorderly conduct, according to UW-Milwaukee spokesperson Angelica Duria. Non-students were banned from the student union through the end of this month.
To use in a sentence: The University of Wisconsin has “displaced’’ season ticket holders at the Kohl Center. They were forced out and uprooted from their seats. They are disturbed.
Forecasted rainfall is expected to be “on the high side” in the next few weeks, according to Ken Potter, a UW professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering who focuses on water management and flood risk mitigation.
A year of deep cuts has significantly lowered the Universities of Wisconsin’s total debt, but it’s still projected to be $17.4 million in the red through 2025, according to information shared during the UW Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman is warning that while it’s not precisely clear how delays in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and reduced completions this year will impact student enrollment this fall, one thing is certain: It won’t be good.
UW-Milwaukee said during a Business and Finance Committee meeting with the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents at the UWM Student Union, a handful of protesters “interrupted” the meeting and were exhibiting “disruptive behavior.”
Fall enrollment at the Universities of Wisconsin will likely be negatively impacted by the delayed rollout of a federal financial aid form, according to Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman.
Dana Rettke, the 2021 national college player of the year, and Lauren Carlini, a four-time All-American, were named to the 12-player roster Wednesday. They are two of the four first-time Olympians on the team.
Dana Rettke and Lauren Carlini were selected Wednesday for the Team USA women’s national volleyball roster. They were on the court together when Team USA secured its qualification to the 2024 Paris Olympics by winning in four sets against Germany at the qualifying tournament in Lodz, Poland.
In Wisconsin, average earnings for a student entering the workforce directly after high school is $40,104, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; for graduates of the Universities of Wisconsin, the average starting salary is $61,221.
Recruiters are turning to college roadshows and prep classes to convince more rural students to go to college.
In the last 18 months, the Universities of Wisconsin has effectively closed five of the system’s branch campuses, most of which predominantly served rural students. The UW system cites declining enrollment, not finances, as the reason, even as the system projects that 13 campuses would be a cumulative $60 million over budget by the end of fiscal 2024.
Several high school administrators told the Wisconsin State Journal that they are seeing increased interest in technical colleges from their students, both in dual enrollment classes, which allow students to earn college credit in high school, and overall interest in those colleges for their post-secondary plans.
“Choosing to act on climate has become a political talking point but this report should be a reminder to people that in fact it is fundamentally a choice to save human lives,” said University of Wisconsin climate scientist Andrea Dutton, who wasn’t part of the international study team. “To me, that is something worth fighting for.”
Joe Pavelski told Dallas media members on Tuesday that he isn’t planning to play next season. Pavelski’s Dallas Stars lost to the Edmonton Oilers in the conference final on Sunday.
Robert “Bob” Atwell, one of the last two of former Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees on the UW Board of Regents, has submitted his resignation to Universities of Wisconsin leadership after Gov. Tony Evers announced a successor and two other new board members last week.
Since 2017, at least 35 pedestrians and cyclists have suffered minor and serious injuries from being struck by vehicles on Park Street, according to UW-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory.
Valentin Picasso is a University of Wisconsin-Madison plant and agro ecosystem sciences professor who has been researching kernza and other perennial grains in an effort “to increase sustainability of farming systems and resilience to climate change.”
After initially refusing to give up his seat when his term expired, Regent Bob Atwell reversed course this week and resigned from the board, effective immediately.
The Badgers are one of the four teams who will open the season at the AVCA First Serve Showcase at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Two matches will be played Aug. 27 and will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2.
The University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team won a recruiting battle for Australian distance runner Morgan McDonald in 2014.
It’s not hard to draw the connection a decade later to Jackson Sharp and Adam Spencer wearing Badgers apparel as they head this week to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
The 45-minute, mile-long walking tours are set to be led by UW faculty, starting at 12:30 p.m., and every hour after that up to 4:15 p.m.
Liesch also plans to join Dan Young, a UW-Madison entomologist, in a presentation at 3:30 p.m. at Library Park near the library which will cover cicada basics and feature an up-close look at periodical cicadas.
Dane County has some of the highest levels of excessive drinking in Wisconsin and has a higher level of traffic deaths involving alcohol than the rest of the state and the country, according to the UW-Madison Population Health Institute. Across the state, alcohol-induced deaths have tripled since 1999, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
From afar, Patrick Herb wasn’t sure what to expect from the ESPN2 color analyst for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s late December game at the University of California in Berkeley.
He had known Bill Walton to be gregarious and maybe off-topic on the broadcasts. But he was pleasantly surprised with how much the former UCLA star put into his pre-game preparation.
Get ready for Friday games to start and end the 2024 regular season, University of Wisconsin football fans.
The study, conducted by UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health researchers, was funded in part through a partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook. The company, according to UW-Madison, played no role in the study’s design, analysis or reporting.
Atop detective at the UW-Madison Police Department has a two-decade history of being the subject of misconduct investigations and discipline for lying, berating and endangering the public and colleagues, refusing to follow orders, and more, according to documents obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal through an open records request.
Bob Atwell, one of two remaining members appointed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, told UW system leaders he planned to continue serving after his term expired on May 1. Atwell said his decision was based on advice he received from top legislative Republicans, which was confirmed by UW President Jay Rothman.
Evers on Friday named Tim Nixon, Jack Salzwedel and Desmond Adongo to fill vacancies created by the May expiration of three former appointees’ terms.
There’s a farm in the little town of Arlington, 20 miles north of Madison, that looks and smells like any other Wisconsin dairy operation. Its 550 cows are milked twice daily, once before dawn and again in the afternoon, like they are at thousands of dairy farms across the state.
But at this farm — the University of Wisconsin’s Agricultural Research Station — when a cow eats, gets milked and burps, a data point is created. That data collection is helping researchers at UW-Madison adapt Wisconsin’s herd to the challenges of climate change.
The project also brought in a range of local voices to shape its content — from not only the museum’s own education department but also from representatives from UW-Madison, Vilas Zoo, members of different cultural groups and others.
The dozen new members of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame have a decorated history: Four won NCAA championships, seven were All-Americans and two won Rose Bowls.
Wednesday is the last day high school juniors in the Madison School District can opt in to the Universities of Wisconsin direct admissions program, which proactively offers admission to qualifying high schoolers and allows them to sidestep the traditional college application process.
A Madison man is facing a felony charge after police say he interfered with the May 1 raid of an unsanctioned pro-Palestinian encampment on the UW-Madison campus.
Still, this is a unique phenomenon that people in the Badger State won’t experience again until 2041. Known on social media as the “Wisconsin Bug Guy” P.J. Liesch is particularly excited about the swarms of cicadas that have already started to pop up and make noise here.
“I turn 40 years old next year, and I have not seen these yet with my own eyes,” said Liesch, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the state’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory used milk samples collected from infected cows on farms in New Mexico and Kansas.
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team rounded out its coaching staff with the addition of assistant Frozena Jerro, the program announced Wednesday night.
Dreamers live under a microscope; any mistake could jeopardize their status, said Erin Barbato, director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
“Someone who has DACA is already incredibly accomplished and has had no errors in their ways for their entire life because they basically have been forced to have a perfect life — in academics and employment and with their character — in order to qualify for DACA,” Barbato said.
“I think you can show what has happened to real wages for teachers in Wisconsin when they’re not allowed to bargain over wages,” said Michael Childers, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who researches organized labor issues. “And what does that do to every other aspect in terms of teacher turnover and the ability to recruit and retain people to come to the profession. We’re 10 years in, there’s enough data.”
Each Thursday and Saturday beginning this week, the group will offer guided one- to two-hour walks focused on the Greenbush, Maple Bluff, Mansion Hill East, Westmorland and Vilas neighborhoods, as well as the UW-Madison agricultural campus, Orton Park and King Street areas.
Wells started taking classes at Madison College last year. But the chain of events that led to earning her degree stretches back to 2007, when Mary Wells participated in the UW Odyssey Project.
These are the voters whom Republican candidates risk losing if they take a strong stance on abortion bans, according to Mariel Barnes, a political scientist at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“This presents a problem for the Republican Party and Republican candidates,” Barnes told the Cap Times. “Because they’re trying to satisfy this more extreme wing in the party that wants to restrict abortion under almost all circumstances, when it is actually very unpopular with the center of the party, and you need the center of the party to get elected.”
In 1970 she was employed by the School of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, serving as Undergraduate Advisor in Music Education, and for ten years, from 1976 to 1986, also as administrator of the Summer Music Clinics for junior and senior high school students. She retired from the university in 1998.
Behnke, 63, who grew up in Madison and went to college and law school at UW-Madison, was nominated in February to be ABA president. If confirmed in a vote in August, she will be president-elect for a year before becoming president next year.
Two renovation projects at Camp Randall Stadium have entered the final push now that the University of Wisconsin’s spring commencement is in the rearview mirror.
Cameron Huss capped an exceptional four-year University of Wisconsin golf career with his first trip to the NCAA Division 1 National Championship, but the senior fell just short of reaching Monday’s final round in Carlsbad, California.
Here are five major Madison-area road projects to be on the lookout for this season.
Five University of Wisconsin track and field athletes earned spots in the NCAA Outdoor Championships next week in Eugene, Oregon, after turning in impressive showings under tough conditions at the West First Round last week in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The last 28 years of his career were at the UW- Madison in the Art Department becoming an Emeritus Professor.
Guest column by Donald Downs, emeritus political science professor at UW-Madison.
Robert “Bob” Atwell, one of the last two of former Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees on the UW Board of Regents, has told Universities of Wisconsin leadership he won’t step down when his term ends this month.
The Badgers will play Butler next season in a neutral-site game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, according to Jon Rothstein of College Hoops Today, at an unknown date and time.
Archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday they have identified up to nine more dugout canoes on the lake’s bottom near Shorewood Hills.
Ross Kopfer knows all about facing head on life’s unforeseen obstacles. Decades before he would have to fight for his life in the wake of a tragic car crash, he was forced to make a “leap-of-faith” decision on his life’s trajectory before his final year of college.
Jackie also worked in editorships; Professional Project Manager at American Family Insurance; and Administrative and Research Assistant to Dean, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The UW Board of Regents approved the extension at a meeting in April, with plans to reevaluate in 2026-2027. Regent Bob Atwell voted against the extension, saying it was a COVID-era policy and the rationale to keep it going “has passed.”
The typical season for tick emergence is from May to September, said Susan Paskewitz, UW-Madison professor of entomology. But last year, she and her team found tick nymphs, or young ticks, as early as April 13, a record. This year, her team found ticks again in April.
